218 : CXIV. SANTALACER. [ Choretrum. 
Ped 2-lobed stigma. Fruit a globular or ovoid drupe, crowned by 
the persistent perianth-lobes, the epicarp succulent, the endocarp hard 
and ADT thick.—Shrubs with numerous n or rigid apparently 
leafless branches, the joe all reduced to minute scales usually 
deciduous. Flowers minute, solitary or in little pee along the 
Lo npe E by an 'involucre of 2 to 4 or more minute 'scale- 
like bra 
The genus is limited to Australia. 
Flowers 2 to 5 together in shortly pence. or almost sessile 
1. C. glomeratum. 
fos solitary within each involucr 
id 
Branches rigid terete. Flowers appre imate in spikes 2. C. spicatum. 
a coder terete, Outer rim of the perinifihsttbe scarcely j 
ominen 3. C. lateriflorum. 
Branches send acutely angular. Outer rim of the perianth- 
he ms i acu y pa b a. Oi Oii 
C. pup $a nell Pg i 31,8 rom Port pikët; Wien is ——€— refer- 
rible ‘to the genus. vt is a rigid leafless spinescent shrub, wi h the aspect of sor 
meria aphy ut the flowers are paie and solitary or in pm er ve ies phe 
broad connate bracts. The perianths are all closed and aa a line long or mor re 
when opened they eb E een abes Be ege stamens or hairs pem but in the 
borde of the flowe ve nute stamens without rudimentary 
vary. The ey may ral possibly be i i a esos state. If not, the sidak must belig 
to some very differen t On der. 
omeratum, R. Br. Prod. 354. An erect hrab; sometimes 
c 
scarcely 1ft. high, sometimes almost arborescent, with numerous erect 
slender wiry angular branches. Leaves re uced to minute subulate 
deciduous scales. Flowers smaller than in €. lateriflor a, 2 to D together — 
sessile and clustered on a common peduncle of 4 to 1 line, each cluster — 
surrounded by 8 or 4 minute almost orbicular bracts. Perianth about 
# line long, the broadly turbinate adnate tube not above half the length 
of the lobes, the external margin Met! vio na Drupe when 
dry 2 to 4 P long, ponar or slightly ovoid.—A. DC. Prod. xiv. 
676; Miq. in Pl. Preiss. i. 608; En dl. Tabu: t. 45. 
N. s. i: Gros ‘cag e ini perm valley, A. Cunningham ; Mac- 
quarrie river, Bowman ; Cas "wd river, C. Moore; Mudgee, N. Taylor. 
gros: Li eller. 
ght river, Tar li je F. Mu iWhit- 
S. A Memory Cov rt Lincoln, R. Brown; PP bay, 
EN Victoria Take, F. Mue es? T kakr island, biet Point 
ustralia. mmond, 3rd coll. n. 199, ; Cape Riche, Harvey; jrm 
Henry and Dickes sede Oldfield; base of Burling Range, d Mueller ; 
river, Preiss, n. ae 
Var. chrysanthum. Flowers seat’ larger and more yellow. 1 am quite pere 
detect, any oer peet abid —C. chrysanthum, F. Muell. in Hook. Kew Journ. vii. ri 
. 81, ined.; A. D goera xiv. md ay and Avoca desert, £- 
«VIt 
ded bar: near Wheal Barton Mines, F. Mu 
; spicatum, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 21. An erect shrub, ke : 
branches terete and when in iier d ikai and more rigid than in el 3 
young ones slender with numerous closely ap e T d 
other 
near hnceohte scale-like leaves of about 1 line, which soon fi 
rs on the previous year’s — sessile, solitary at cue n 
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